Matthew Cox

Like you can profit, but 80% of it has to go to your victims.

Okay.

Every state is a little bit different.

I'm pretty sure New York is like, no, absolutely not.

Now, that's if you were convicted of a state crime.

If you're convicted of a federal crime, the federal statute says that if you have a violent crime or a crime of espionage, you cannot profit.

But I have a white collar crime.

Right.

So I wrote a book about my crime and I'm allowed to profit from that.

Now, as far as.

you or me as a journalist writing a story about a crime.

Perfectly legal.

So me writing stories about these other guys, because I've written stories about, like I said, about 24, 25 different

a combination of synopses and actual true crime books.

And a couple were memoirs, but they're still true crime memoirs.

So I'm allowed to make money off of their books.

Now, in some of those cases, I've split the profits with those people.

So I'm saying, hey, if I end up selling your, typically I don't split the book.

Right.

But if I option it,